Critical engagement with the media is not enough to drive social change, in a context where community participation and diverse networks become essential to confront policies affecting basic rights and public services. Is it enough to read a left leaning newspaper? This can be refreshing compared to the mainstream media, […]
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Viva Rita in Hollywood!
The Puerto Rican actress broke through in an industry shaped by unequal opportunities for Hispanic-Latin artists. More than half a century after her Academy Award, such recognition remains exceptionally rare. Hollywood. A dream factory, source of aspirations and opportunity for some, but historically a virtual closed shop for others. Sometimes […]
The soft power of storytelling
Hard power deploys brute force or makes manifest its capacity and willingness to do so. The soft power of storytelling does not command and coerce in this way but exerts its own form of dominance through its ability to script a particular perspective. Sean Sheehan Through the control […]
The apocalypse industry: surviving underground
The bunker business has stopped being a marginal extravagance and become an international market in expansion, fed by the fear of wars, climate disasters and global threats. Technological entrepreneurs, public figures and even members of the US political sphere have invested millions in those subterranean refuges. Roberto F. Campos […]
50 years of Argentina on film
Cinema as reckoning 5 decades after the Dirty War. As President Milei takes selfies with Netanyahu, a season of films reflects on the 5 decades that have led Argentina to where it is today. Abla Kandalaft / The Canary The dirty war and its aftermath The Argentine Film […]
















